| CHRISTMAS IN EDGARTOWN IS THIS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8 AND ST. ANDREW’S OPEN HOUSE IS 12 NOON – 2PM! Come join us right after the parade for free hot chocolate, Christmas cookies and refreshments, Christmas carols, and a FREE holiday photo shoot by a professional photographer with the antique Vineyard Gazette truck! We could use some friendly faces to join us that day, and to bake some cookies for us! PLEASE sign up in the Parish House today!
ADVENT CHORAL EVENSONG AT ST. ANDREW’S: THIS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9 AT 4:00 PM. The traditional Anglican choral Evensong is a sublimely beautiful and prayerful way to “get in the swing” of the season—bring your friends and family!
YOUTH TRIP TO CITYREACH BOSTON: This is an overnight trip that begins after school on Friday, December 14, 2018 to help shelter, feed and clothe our Boston neighbors—and gives our students a real learning experience! WE NEED YOUR HELP WITH DONATIONS OF NEW AND USED CLOTHING—PLEASE CONSULT THE LIST OF ITEMS NEEDED (in the back of the church), AND BRING YOUR OFFERINGS TO ST ANDREW’S BY DECEMBER 9.
THREE SPECTACULAR CHRISTMAS SERVICES: Monday December 24, and Tuesday, December 25. Enjoy the great music and deeply moving worship with your friends and family! On Christmas Eve, our “family” service is at 4:00 pm and our “choral” service begins promptly at 9:45 pm—with full choir, organ and guest musicians. AND—we have a sweet and quiet Christmas Day worship at 9:00 am—a perfect way to celebrate Christmas!
WE NEED LAY MINISTERS TO HELP WITH OUR CHRISTMAS SERVICES! We need lay leaders, lectors, ushers and chalicists to help with our two services on Christmas Eve—PLEASE sign up on the sign up sheet in the Parish House!
REMEMBER YOUR LOVED ONES AT CHRISTMAS by leaving their names with us on the Memorial Flower cards in the pews and Parish House, or email Heather Anne Slayton at office@standrewsmv.org. Your contributions and support are very much appreciated by the Altar Guild and the Flower Committee (and in turn by all of us who admire our shining Altar and the weekly flower arrangements)!
“BUILDING OUR FUTURE”is the theme for our campaign of stewardship this year. Pledge cards have been mailed out, so please take a moment to read the accompanying letter, and pray before you fill them out and return them. Your gift to St Andrew’s Church is a gift to us all—as you are—and for our generations to come. Please be generous. “The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock…” (Mt 7:25)
HOUSES OF GRACE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! The Houses of Grace Island Winter Shelter Program is gearing up for our fourth winter of providing overnight shelter to anyone on the island who needs it, and WE NEED YOU! For those who have served as volunteers in the past, please stay tuned for information about how the program has changed this year, and PLEASE SIGN UP AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN AGAIN! And for those of you who may have heard about the rewarding experience of serving in the shelter, here’s your chance to try it out! Everyone needs to attend an orientation session prior to our start date of January 1. Our last scheduled one is Wednesday, December 5, 7:00 pm at Good Shepherd Parish Center, Oak Bluffs. If you have any questions, or would like to contribute to the Island Homeless Shelter fund (checks must be made payable to The Permanent Endowment for MV) please call Father Chip Seadale at 508-627-5330 and leave a message if you don’t get us on the line.
THE ISLAND FOOD PANTRY is loading up again for the off-season months and is asking us to bring in our donations of non-perishable food items, buying some extra items when shopping and placing them in the purple ISLAND PANTRY BOXES at checkout, or writing a check to the Island Food Pantry, and placing it in the envelopes in our pews, and leaving it in the offering plate. Although all non-perishable, unopened and unexpired food is appreciated, a list of items can be found on the yellow cards at the back of the church.
CENTERING PRAYER can be a real-life changer – TRY IT OUT! Our Centering Prayer group meets between worship services Sundays at 9:15 am across the street in the Parish House. For the present time, we are meeting upstairs in the front room of that building. Please look for the sign on the exterior door. (Looking for a way to introduce balance, health, wholeness and meaning to your life? This could just be your ticket…) Questions? Please call Susan Kelly at 1-774-563-0634.
“The Vision of St Andrew’s Church is to make God present in our families, our neighborhood, our town, the Island of Martha’s Vineyard, and in the world.”
Our Vestry:
Wardens: Carl Malmquist and Jessica Buckley
Treasurer: Wesley Brown
Parish Clerk: Pam Monterosso
Members at Large: Hans von Steiger, Sandra Mott, Leon Brathwaite, Chris Buchholz, Michael Balay and Harrison Kisiel
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